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Jake AdkinsFilm Reviews/HollywoodCulture
Notes on Homer, Christopher Nolan, Kevin Vanhoozer, and how the flat world built by a century of demythologizing is generating its own dissatisfaction
Marc SimsFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In a world that has flushed metaphysics down the toilet, the only “real” thing we have is our experience, our feelings. And if we fail to find salvation within, if we “open the window” and find not light, but darkness, then nothing remains.
Jake MeadorCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Near the end of his essay on poetry and marriage Wendell Berry considers how free verse fits into his broader consideration of the relationship between fixed poetic forms and fixed
Elizabeth SticeFormationFilm Reviews/HollywoodHealth & Medicine
The representation of so-called "assisted dying" on Hacks is harmful because it is dishonest about dignity in such situations.
Andrew BarberCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
There was a time when film was a window into broader cultural conversations, even a form of common life. But that world has disappeared.
Derek KingCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
'Wake Up Dead Man' presents viewers with two competing accounts of strength, both of which can be found in Christian churches and social circles.
Samuel JamesFilm Reviews/HollywoodFormation
Many young men need to see heaven. They need a visitation from a future of hope they don’t currently have, the Ghost of Christmas Never.
Ryan ShinkelCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Amongst the many who have tried to define what it means to be American, few have perhaps been as moving or influential as the filmmaker Frank Capra.
Jake MeadorFilm Reviews/Hollywood
'Daredevil: Born Again' brought back some of the characters and action of the Netflix series, but it lost the moral heart that made the original great.
Erik CoonceFilm Reviews/HollywoodLiterature
'Dune' offers a powerful account of evil and an often realistic account of our failings, but does it leave us with anything solid to measure ourselves by?
Nicholas McDonaldFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Tim Burton's classic 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is best understood as a disenchantment and reenchantment story.
Ross ByrdFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Disney's 2023 movie 'Wish' is best understood as a kind of inversion of a classic genie story with a deeply materialistic outlook.